Only a look shot my way from the rigid face of a stone woman, a caryatid, whose hands were holding the balcony of a building hoisted toward the sky in such a way that she could have hurled it at any time.

Dr Simon Thurley, English Heritage chief executive, who travelled to Liverpool for the launch, described the Small Concert Room, with neo-classical caryatid figures shouldering its balconies as ``fantastic''.

The specialist shops with their elegant frontages and distinctive caryatid figures and the pavement cafes and bars looking across the street to Montpellier Gardens have a stylish Continental atmosphere.

55) Such as in another of Boissard's emblems: de Dieu vient le scavoir des effets de a nature (18-19) where two men of learning, dressed in Greco-Roman attire, contemplate a polymast mother-nature caryatid (the Artemis of Epheseus).

The book shows the different styles at one point and these include leaf cups, full-tip cups (where the point of the horn was left intact), raft-cups where the side of the horn was carved out like a boat and then there were goblet cups, caryatid cups (which is the one generally seen) and several more.

Most photographic reproductions of Wheeler's sculptures for the Threadneedle Street facade tend to isolate the two groups of telamon and caryatid figures that rise behind the balustrade, and for good reason.

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